A Constraint-Based Register for the Assignment and Reassignment of Road Names Across a Shire
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement describes a Road Name Register that reduces each gazetted road name to a first-syllable key and resolves every collision by renaming the road with the fewest households, and reports fourteen months of operation over a shire of 417 roads. It renamed 99 roads, re-addressing 3,003 households, and left no collision standing on any of 426 nightly runs; the shire's council has adopted the register's gazette as the sole instrument of naming, with an empty override list.
| Authors | Signy Okpara , Casimir Beng , Renke Sabel |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Reconciling a Community Hall's Key Register Before Nobody Can Say Who Holds One ( $274,158) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.ioc4w6 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 1 output |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_ioc4w6,
author = {Signy Okpara and Casimir Beng and Renke Sabel},
title = {Nobody Lives on Wattle Street Any More: A Constraint-Based Register for the Assignment and Reassignment of Road Names Across a Shire},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.ioc4w6},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-can-a-shire-s-ioc4w6/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}